Powerful Expression Quotes

When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words.

What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

Music, the knife without a hilt.

It's important as a writer to do my art well and do it in a way that is powerful and beautiful and meaningful, so that my work regenerates the people, certainly Indian people, and the earth and the sun. And in that way we all continue forever.

There’s a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.

The language of the heart--the language which "comes from the heart" and "goes to the heart"--is always simple, always graceful, and always full of power, but no art of rhetoric can teach it. It is at once the easiest and most difficult language--difficult, since it needs a heart to speak it; easy, because its periods though rounded and full of harmony, are still unstudied.

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

There is no talent so pernicious as eloquence to those who have it under command.

O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world, And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy Which cannot hear a lady's feeble voice, Which scorns a modern invocation.

The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity - but every word must be supercharged, high-voltage.

You can say a lot more with a poem than you can with a song, but with a song you can really be more powerful with it. You can express it a lot more powerfully.

I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

I believe that things can be expressed very powerfully through simplicity.

If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.

His voice was low, charged with unspeakable adjectives.

There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.

I don't think you need to sound like from where you're from. But I think there is something magical and powerful about encompassing something fully and singularly.

Mark Twain said, 'The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug.' Fill your book with lightning.

In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.

The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth.... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly expended in the air.

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.

Chan Marshall has one of the most haunting, wrenching voices of any current singer, male or female.